[Melbourne-pm] Knockd for Web
Scott Penrose
scottp at dd.com.au
Tue Jun 2 21:36:47 PDT 2009
----- "Simon Taylor" <simon at unisolve.com.au> wrote:
> Using knockd is emphatically not security through obscurity. As Scott
> has said, all of your normal security infrastructure remains in
> place.
>
> In our uses of it, we routinely have HID systems like psad and ossec
> running on public servers and these do a great job of reporting on
> suspicious traffic.
>
> But it is knockd that dramatically reduces the attention you get from
> black hats and allows the often time-poor, overworked sys admin in an
> organisation to focus on the attacks that remain.
>
> Cheers,
> Simon
Yes, well written. I have been trying to put into words what you have done here well.
Scott
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